Above the table on which I'm now writing hangs an old framed print showing Mr. Pickwick's street-smart servant, Sam Weller, prophetically pointing out to his chubby little master—in tights ...

In that respect few subjects offer a tougher challenge than Charles Dickens, with whom the novelist Jane Smiley has been paired. As she acknowledges at the outset of her book, his is "possibly the ...

Further, and for reasons we'll never fully understand, Dickens's sister-in-law affixed the paw to a letter opener as a gift for the author. An ivory blade now shoots out just beyond Bob's paw pads.

In the world of a Dickens novel, everything is connected to everything else. Orphans find families. Lovers are joined (or parted and morally strengthened). Ancient mysteries are solved and old ...

"Dickens saw a world of possibility in Massachusetts," says Diana Archibald, associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Archibald is co-curator of the "Dickens and ...

A cozy, laughing, loving family sitting by the fireplace, eating nuts and oranges, playing games and singing: That is the classic Charles Dickens Christmas, made famous by “A Christmas Carol ...

IN the work of Dickens’ middle period — after the murder in Martin Chuzzlewit — the rebel bulks larger than the criminal. Of all the great Victorian writers, he was probably the most ...

Return to Part One of this story, from the October 1870 Atlantic. Part II. From Philadelphia Mr. Dickens went direct to Washington. On reaching Baltimore the cars stopped awhile in the market ...